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A buffet serving line inside an ornate white hall with gold-toned temple canopy in the background. Several people in white clothing stand along steel trays of food. A man in the foreground wears a white hairnet and white kurta, using tongs at steel pots of food. Others hold clay plates and cups while being served rice, vegetables, flatbread and sliced apples. A man in a red shirt holds a camera. Trays of red apples fill the foreground.

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November 21 20112011-11-21A photograph of a community meal service in a temple-style hall. Several men line up at a steel serving counter, holding terracotta plates and cups as volunteers in white kurta-style clothes and white hair nets ladle food from large steel pots of curry and rice. A man in a white shirt with an orange-trimmed sleeve stands among them, and a golden ornate shrine structure with a kalasha-like top is visible in the background. The scene shows annadan style food distribution among about eight people.2011-11-21July 01 20152015-07-01 +1 copiesA photograph of a serving line at a temple-style meal service. Several people in white dhotis and orange-red shawls stand behind steel trays, serving food with ladles. A woman in an orange sari and a rudraksha mala holds a serving spoon, and a woman in a gold-bordered sari wears a white hairnet. A man in a white shirt in the foreground reaches toward a copper vessel filled with cooked corn cobs. Other visible people wear clear plastic gloves and white hairnets. The setting is a bright indoor hall with pale walls and a glass window. A copper pot and brass pillar stand at the centre of the counter.2016-07-04August 18 20132013-08-18 +1 copiesA communal meal service in a white-walled hall. On the right, women in white saris with gold borders and white hairnets serve food from brass chafing dishes on a long buffet counter draped in yellow and white fabric. In the centre, a man in white kurta with a beaded mala serves a plated meal to a man in a white kurta who holds a plate with rice and curries. Other people in white clothes stand in line behind them. At the left edge, a deity murti sits on a blue and gold pedestal near a yellow-draped table. Ceiling fans and an air cooler are visible.2015-07-02 +1 copiesA buffet serving line of food in steel chafing dishes, with volunteers in white hairnets serving rice and curries to participants. A woman in white with a red shawl and a man in a red and white checked shawl serve from the line, while a boy in a white shirt and red sash and a teenager in white with an orange sash hold plates. A man in the foreground wears a hairnet and white shirt with a red lanyard. In the background a person in saffron and red robes stands near a ceremonial area, and others in white and purple move through a hall with white chairs. Several people are visible in the distance, some wearing red sashes, in a marble-floored banquet hall.2016-07-05August 29 20092009-08-29A large hall with pink walls and red curtains where people queue at a buffet of steel trays serving rice, dal, bread and vegetables under a glass sneeze guard. Attendants in white shirts and hairnets serve food while devotees in white and pink shirts, one in an orange shawl, wait in line. A screen on the back wall shows a figure. Many people are visible in the background.2013-08-18January 02 20162016-01-02A photograph of a buffet serving line for a communal meal. Women and men stand along copper-coloured chafing dishes with brass legs, serving rice, curries and flatbread onto white compartment plates. Several servers wear white hairnets and white clothing, while devotees in white and orange-red shawls queue with plates. Dishes hold yellow dal, vegetables and chapati. The setting is a white-walled hall with a cream curtain and yellow fabric at the top right.2015-07-01 +1 copiesSeptember 22 20122012-09-22